[joshowens]

> First, Rails is not my job. I don't want it to be my job. The best frameworks are in my opinion extracted, not envisioned. And the best way to extract is first to actually do.

You are slightly wrong in your history of Meteor. It was extract from an app they built. Unlike Basecamp or Facebook, the app died off and they focused on just building the framework. So while it was extracted, I think MDG has missed a lot of the learnings that something like Rails gets from core contributors that are building applications and the framework together.

MDG has actually talked about taking one week twice a year to build 'apps' with the framework, but that just hasn't been enough. I am glad they are finally working with Meteor itself to build Galaxy and supporting Galaxy customers as well, that really gets some skin back in the game.

Imo, this post is just a manifestation of the deeper issue around profitability and the fact that MDG will need to jettison some of it's development costs and pick up a much larger base of customers if they want to be profitable.

Which PaaS also builds it's own programming framework...